| Capital: | € 1.1 billion |
| Age: | 80 |
| Born: | May 9, 1939 |
| Country of origin: | Romania |
| Source of wealth: | Entrepreneurs |
| Last updated: | 2020 |
Short introduction
The Romanian Ion Tamiac is a successful hockey and tennis player and is manager and entrepreneur who is equally successul. In Germany he was famous as manager of Boris Becker, which he managed from 1984 to 1993. He also kept many other tennis stars as managers. He was also involved in various entrepreneurial activities which made him a billionaire.
Early life
His life was formed by sports from an early age. Born in Transylvania, he first appeared when he became a table tennis tennis in his age group as a child. He then began playing ice hockey. For his home country, Romania, he even participated in the 1964 Winter Olympics. At the same time, he also played tennis, which he made his profession shortly after participating in the Olympics.
Career
Especially in double Ion Taric celebrating its success as a professional tennis player. Ilie Nastase was her partner for a long time, then Vilas Guillerma was only during that time. In 1970 he won the Grand Slam tournament, namely French Open in Doubles. He was also very successful in representing Romanian countries in the Davis Cup. Three times, in 1969, 1971 and 1972, he managed to reach the final without being able to win the competition.
In total, Tamiac Ion won 22 double tournaments in his career as a double specialist. On Singles he only won a professional tournament, also one in Munich in 1970. Some other successes as single players were also in his vita, but had an inferior ranking.
While he is only known for real tennis lovers so far, because the double is generally lacking in the focus of attention, he gained international fame through his work as a tennis player manager. He began with this assignment in 1983 and quickly had many players under the contract. The most extraordinary of course Boris Becker, German children prodigy of tennis. He managed Leimener from 1984, before his first victory at Wimbledon, until 1993.
Another prominent tennis player who took care of ions the tug as the manager was Anke Huber, Henri Leconte and Goran Ivanisevic. From 1998 to 2004 he was the President of Nok from Romania.
Ion tue does not stop in managing tennis professionals. He did a lot of business investment and other activities that had made it Romania and the richest billionaire for years.
The activity is bundled in Tekaac Holding including diverse industries as bank formation, health insurance, leasing companies for cars, licenses as importer for cars from Mercedes-Benz and, in addition to travel companies, airlines. .
Unlike many other entrepreneurs, he never suffered a large wreck or loss. Conversely, his wealth is increasingly convincing, so he has become a richest citizen of Romania for some time.
Personally, he has several marriages, where a total of three children appear.
The big hobby of Tiriac Ion is a collection of cars, which are now open to the public. It has more than 350 high-quality vehicles that are different from all the era. 165 of them are served in rotation in a collection of tariiacs, which also includes motobikes. Many vehicles are also marked by previously having a leading owner. These include vehicles from Elton John, Sammy Davis Jr. or Bernie Ecclestone.
Career highlights
From a sports point of view, the biggest success of Ion Taniak was winning the 1970 French over in doubles. As a businessman, his success is almost countless. This is how Romanian people who grow simple who know hungry themselves are one of the richest people on earth. Forbes list told him as the only Romanian in the list of the richest people in the world ranked 1,818 (in 2019).
Amazing facts
In 2013 he was chosen to the Tennis Hall of Fame, but not in his role as a player but as a manager.
In 1987, he appeared in American commercial for a type of beer.
Before winning the title in 1970, he had reached the final in the double from France Open in 1966, which he later lost to Ilie Nastase.
His nickname, based on his birthplace, “Bulldozer Brasov”.
Two stamps were released in Romania which showed it as an active tennis player.
In 2006, he was ranked 77th among “100 of the largest Romans of all time”.
When women are allowed to take part in the men’s tennis tournament for the first time, it is the Tamiac ion who plays the first match against a woman. He won 6-0, 6-0 against Abigail Maynard.
